Webinar 2 - Keynote Address - Tuesday February 9, 2021
'Speaking about the differences - Improving cultural diversity competence in clinical supervision' - Sarah Hamilton & Dragos Ileana. Click here to find out more and secure your ticket!
Trusting Relationship
Clinical supervision in the 21st century has become an essential practice for helping professions worldwide. Although a universally agreed definition or understanding of clinical supervision remains elusive, all helping professionals from nurses to teachers unequivocally agree that clinical supervision is an important aspect of their professional practice landscape. Clinical supervision is based on a trusting relationship that aims to provide a safe emotional space in which supervisees can discuss their professional work-related concerns. The process aims to empower supervisees through guided reflection that is learner-centred and learner-led, and holds the trusting relationship at the heart of clinical supervision.
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Definition
The Australian Clinical Supervision Association recognises that the term, ‘clinical supervision’ is used in various ways, and sometimes incorrectly. Our aim here is to clarify generic clinical supervision as a clinical practice in its own right. ACSA celebrates both the core skills and the specialised differences in clinical supervision within the helping professions. Our mission is to promote generic clinical supervision skills, practices and processes that occur within a safe and supportive relationship. We believe that quality clinical supervision is contractual and confidential. We offer an alternative to ‘on the job’ or ‘point of practice’ supervision in that clinical supervision takes place in protected time and a private space away from the immediate clinical area.
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Best Practice
We recommend that clinical supervisors seek and achieve education and training in this specialty role, according to best practice principles of supervision and of education, training, and facilitation. We believe that potential clinical supervisees also need to be prepared and educated for their role of clinician-supervisee. We hope that, in the future, we as an association, will be in a position to accredit currently practicing and future practicing clinical supervisors for this role. We are currently involved in a research project to ascertain the viability of a generic clinical supervision assessment tool that can be used to evaluate clinical supervisors’ skills, knowledge, and capacities – all are indispensable to the art and craft of clinical supervision.
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Acknowledgment of Country
ACSA pays respect to the ongoing living cultures of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and we acknowledge our Traditional Owners of the lands where we live, learn, work and play.
Commitment to the Environment
Protecting the beautiful world we share is important to us and, therefore, ACSA is committed to a paper-free environment. We ask our members to join us in minimising the environmental impact of both producing and distributing our products by opting to use electronic media.
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